Hello dear reader,

I'm Stella a disabled trans woman. I've arrived in Berlin after a burnout caused by my work in a university in Germany, since then additionally affected by COVID, isolation, depression and gender dysphoria was unable to finish my PhD. My plan as arrived in Berlin was to recover from that isolating and heavy experience, take a break, find community and live fully my life as a trans woman. But due to facing multiple discrimination as ableism and transmisoginy, that lead also to a violent eviction and house instability, I was getting more and more sick till to a point I became moderately disabled and forcefully removed form my activism and social life I was starting building.

I ended up partially house and bed bound in the dark and in pain while not having a stable and suitable place to rest. Isolated by my disability I lived wherever I could unable to properly rest after trying everything I could to survive get support and care.

Only in the last half year my symptoms are slightly improving thanks to expensive off label treatments and supplements that I was privileged to receive.

As consequence I’m finally having a little more space to pursue my gender affirming journey and the depression and the dysphoria are now more weighting on my well-being and sense of safety as I’m slowly going back to a social life. I reached than a point where I can’t wait any more. I need a surgery to feel more myself, comfortable in my own skin, safer and being able to breathe again from my nose. That due to a chronic sinusitis and a deviated septum breathing became extremely uncomfortable and barely possible.

 

I'm here asking for your help to make me achieve this essential step in my life. I was very hesitant to open a found raiser but the reality is that I can't realistically achieve it on my own. I don't have support from my family and all this years living in Berlin as disabled person unable to work and dealing with house instability all my resources have been used to keep a roof on my head, to sustain informal rent situations and pay all the medical expenses not covered by social benefits that when I was able to receive were never enough for an entire month. Because of this I need your help, every bits counts.

The surgery in question is a FFS with a septum correction included.

The expenses that will be covered are the following:

for a total of: 9 860,00 €

Thanks for reading, it matters a lot for me.

Immensely grateful to everyone will donate and/or share.

Stella